Over the last decade, composer and sarod player Soumik Datta has built a practice that brings together music and ...

Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

For their contribution to the Indian music soundscape, the masterful sarod-playing wife and sitarist husband are being felicitated with a lifetime achievement award For their contribution to the ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Alam Khan admits that he was emotionally adrift for a time while he grieved for his father, the great North Indian classical musician Ali Akbar Khan, who died in June. “I buried ...

Next to the sitar, the sarod is the most well-known Indian stringed instrument of classical northern Indian music. Sarod means “beautiful sound” or “melody” in Farsi, and is thought to have have ...

What does it mean to have music in your blood?" asks Soumik Datta. "I mean, I get muscle memory, but can it be in our DNA?" For the London-based sarod virtuoso, roots are of paramount importance. But ...

F ascinated by the sound of sarod, Pandit Brij Narayan, the eldest son and disciple of the world renowned sarangi maestro Pandit Ram Narayan, opted to choose sarod as his instrument. He was in the ...

Their story is not about overnight success or going viral on social media. It's about continuity — not just of a musical tradition, but of familial responsibility, cultural defiance, and personal ...

At the recently concluded 26th edition of the Parampara Series: The National Festival of Music and Dance held at Natya Tarangini in the national capital, sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan mesmerised ...